NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points

213% significantly better overall score

1446 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

112 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

22 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

1039% significantly higher Blender score

206.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

98709 points

439% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

18285 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92420 points

361% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

20012 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

71210 points

227% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

21753 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

333% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

19440 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

322% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

19602 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

924 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

64% significantly higher boost clock speed

1038 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

5.97 GiB

99% significantly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

Identical

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

179% significantly higher memory bandwidth

120.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

75 W

6% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

37% slightly higher pixel rate

49.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

105% significantly higher texture rate

83.04 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS

311% significantly better floating point performance

2.66 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

200% significantly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 586

238th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2014 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs GeForce GTX 970M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970M in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 970M has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has significantly more memory with 5.97 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 970M.